Tagged: payments infrastructure

April 23, 2023 @ 2:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Gr4vy, the Cloud-native payments infrastructure company, announced Setplex, a full-service IPTV/OTT solutions provider, has selected the company’s cloud-native payment orchestration platform (POP) “to accelerate time-to-market, onboard new merchants and quickly implement locally preferred payment methods.” John Lunn, founder and CEO of Gr4vy, said: “Offering local… Read More

April 6, 2023 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TerraPay, a global payments infrastructure company, has successfully closed its Series B equity financing round, raising in excess of $100 million in equity and debt financing. The investment round was “led by IFC and supported by Prime Ventures, Partech Africa, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation… Read More

January 4, 2023 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paycell, Türkiye’s next-generation digital payment platform, announced a strategic partnership with Nium, the platform for global money movement, to offer international money transfers from account to account using Nium’s leading business payments infrastructure. The partnership “makes life easier for Paycell users to perform fast, safe,… Read More

May 26, 2022 @ 12:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paddle, the complete payments infrastructure for SaaS companies, announced that it has acquired ProfitWell, the provider of subscription metrics and retention automation software. The deal – valued at more than $200 million in cash and equity – is “the next step in Paddle’s mission to… Read More

May 11, 2022 @ 11:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paddle, the provider of a complete payments infrastructure for SaaS firms, recently announced that it has raised $200 million in Series D equity and debt financing “at a valuation of $1.4bn, making it the UK’s latest unicorn.” Led by KKR, an international investment firm, with… Read More

September 14, 2021 @ 6:04 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Xendit, a payments infrastructure provider serving Southeast Asia, this week announced a $150 million Series C that added it to the list of Southeast Asia unicorns. The round was led by Tiger Global Management with participation from existing investors Accel, Amasia, and Justin Kan’s Goat… Read More

August 4, 2021 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A completely digital economy has “always been on the horizon” and now, thanks to the Covid-19 outbreak, that horizon has been “brought to the forefront” of business operations, the team at UK-based Fintech Modulr writes in a blog post. Before the Coronavirus crisis, cashless payments… Read More

June 7, 2021 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PayAlly, a fully integrated payments ecosystem for small businesses, is reportedly using Banking Circle solutions to enhance its multi-currency B2B cross-border payments platform. Through the partnership, PayAlly will be able access a wider range of payment channels via the Banking Circle super-correspondent banking network. This… Read More

May 27, 2021 @ 5:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Modulr, a Payments as a Service API Platform for digital businesses, notes that embedded financial services can be considered the fourth platform. UK-based Modulr writes in a blog post that embedded financial services have kicked off an “exciting innovations race.” The company also mentions that… Read More

May 14, 2021 @ 12:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global financial infrastructure provider, Banking Circle, has reportedly joined the P27 Nordic payment initiative as a “front-runner” bank in developing “bulk-clearing” for the Danish Krone, “underlining its commitment to building a global payments infrastructure.” P27 has been recognized as an important initiative to address the… Read More

March 14, 2021 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the nation’s central bank, stated on Wednesday (March 11, 2021) that all local banking institutions should offer a set of minimum services for Internet banking and mobile banking. The SBP says it wants to encourage or promote the use… Read More

October 28, 2020 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based businesses might be “sleepwalking” into a major payments crisis, according to a recent report from Modulr, a Payments as a Service API Platform for digital businesses. The report reveals that payment processes cost UK businesses a substantial £1.5m (or 12% of Opex) with costs… Read More

August 26, 2020 @ 1:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just six months after announcing it secured $35 million through its Series B funding round, payments infrastructure platform Finix announced it has extended the funding round and raised a total of $75 million. Sequoia Capital led the round, with participation from Acrew Capital, Bain Capital… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 7:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Finix, a payments infrastructure platform based in the U.S., announced on Tuesday it secured $35 million through its Series B funding round, which was led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Acrew Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Activant Capital, and Inspired Capital. The funding round comes… Read More